Help articles

Guides to connecting SonarBuddy to your boat, fixing problems, and understanding the depths you see. In the app, the Help assistant uses these same articles and can also see what went wrong on your device.

• Connecting SonarBuddy to your boatSonarBuddy reads depth and position from your boat's instruments over Wi-Fi. It never sends anything to your instruments.
• Troubleshooting: the app can't get data from my boatSonarBuddy listens to your boat's instruments over Wi-Fi (NMEA 0183 over TCP). It never sends anything to them. Work through these in order.
• How SonarBuddy works out depths: transducer, tide and LATYour depth sounder measures the water under the transducer, at the tide of the moment. Charts show depths at a fixed low-water level. SonarBuddy converts every sounding so the two